It takes a girl 55 minutes to deliver the papers on her route. if her brother , it takes only 20 minutes. how long would it take her brother to deliver the papers by himself? if necessary, round to 1 decimal place.

Answer- 31.11 minutes

Let 'T' be the total number of newspapers.

Newspapers distributed by girl alone in 55 minutes = T

Newspapers distributed by girl alone in 1 minute = T/55

Newspapers distributed by girl and boy in 20 minutes = T

Newspapers distributed by girl and boy in 1 minutes = T/20

Newspapers distributed by boy alone in 1 minute = T/20 - T/55 = 7T/220

On solving, total time taken by boy to distribute newspapers = 31.11 minutes

arithmetic sequence

step-by-step explanation:

given that a sequence has terms as

19, 15, 11,

this is represented on a graph

the pattern indicates that the sequence is an arithmetic sequence with i term

a=19 and common difference d =-4

any general term

thus the sequence is reduced by 4 for each successive term starting from 1 and nth term is

24-5n.

first negative term would start after 5th term

5th term =24-25< 0

from 5th term onwards the sequence would be negative.